Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

side valve

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.11 in modern English

Syllables
side -valve
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.

Example Sentences

Inflected Forms

side valves (plural)

Frequently Paired Words

overhead valve OHV overhead cam OHC

Synonyms

flathead L-head

Questions

What does side valve mean?
A type of valve in an internal combustion engine, and thus also (metonymic) the type of valvetrain design, the type of engine that uses it, or an instance of such an engine; this design has the inlet and exhaust valves in the cylinder block beside the piston. The cylinder head is then a simple dome extending across the valves and piston.

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